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h ** t * 2 w sm&itcfi&ly dtecoBfeposgd *» the wind , itttci ttey a&ebcgfu £ f for the biding . o £ « a » w-wa&gjf * ary , * OTpi witi * thtm ia an k ^ ta uW ^ Jtiere the ^ i aie two ^ p haeaOHietta * *^ ii icli dptuaod as explanation , -.. How ccuaie J vU > build a city in t ^ ioq& ht , the
BPUJx ^ Lgiit , 1 read tiie words Vienna , Mqsc < py > fekiri , inscribed upon paper ? I oiigjjit ^ o expect * nothing more than a na : h ? aturci wdrd , £ nd a fainter * ink . The * % MT of a worl oogirt ; not to build a towb : and when I borrow materials froni
former . iiwfpr'esSfonsi -what provision does Mr . Hume ' s sy ^ tsjn make for their decomposition ^ since the fainter copy is to retnaia entire , every time we recollect the imp ££ s < k > n ?" - ^ -Pp . 259 , 26 * 0 . ¦ * Again f
Every new perception gives us clear ideas of the thiag perceived , information ^ is thus conveyed to the mind that things exist , possessing certain characters '" and properties . But this information is as remote from resemblance * as
t ^ ie ^ tilings of a murder having been comuiHted ? are from the sight of a UjiaQglecl corpse ; or as the telegraphic Dettifs of the capture of a man-of-war , is from the vessel , the crew , the guns , tliuoder , flames and smoke , and cotirnsxpn of the eggaxement . The primary i&pressionns cari ptily be ctmsidered as n ' otili ^ aiWps of existent objects ,
diversi-* H *» d according to the diversities in the objects . ' Thoughts thus s \ igg ; es * ted b y things external , become the occasions of ottlier thoughts also , to an infi n ite extent ; fbu | . ip what manner such wonderful eneets arc produced ; how this wonderful process is parried on , who c ^ n explain ?
livery attempt hitherto made , Regenerates i ^ itq an ausatisfactory metaphor , having a Ye ^ v ^ imperfect , arici a very trivial relation to toe subject ; and when extended beyc ^ ad > ts limits , Jays itsej / open to compl ete confutation . '—P ' . 204 . ' Mr . Hume , being virelI aware of this , has ' introduced Viis use of the word
impression with the notice , " that he em ploys the word in a sense sQnrewbat different from the usual j" arid ih ' the explanation of what he rneiim 1 > y them , winch irhnicUlately foTIoiVs , tie
has been very careful to avoid " a % tncicri ds j > ossible every metaphoric ^ aVei ^ ressipn ! He does indeed afterwards f * aW ideas copies of the onginat impfessi 6 h ! i ; ^ nd pjlis he does in a passage ' Irr v ^ R&h he ^ jprop > qses " to express ^ irriie ifP Tti
p hilosophical language . "" StiH ^ if % « P ^ ar 3 plain from other passages /* tfrat x ^ l | en he describes ideas ad the copies ^ fi a > pr es > iop 8 , he rpeaiTl . $ only si no pie ^ el&nSntary idea ^ ah 4 inotthe grou ^ wre
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m- <^ 4 k' # fey *« iay , bejConibin « d &ftth& ' <^ U ~ li >« j ^^ tor- a > . tl > e Essay ort . vthft-Qrtgm of . fcdeas , ^ 4 §? . ^ M « mcr is so .-jbs fr € » ia denying a singlevpercipient ^ or jt irwiui e » do 3 wed ^ wit h . ^* rious . JacuJ . ii «? s that ho a ^ dunoes it th roughout . ^ We shell ^ q-uote ^ one passage , in proof . ' * Nor is ; &ny thkig beyond , ihe power
of thought : - « racep £ w ^ hat impliea an absolwte- conttadicd « n » . But though , our thought seams to possess this utit bounded fibert } V 'W 6 shall nnd upon a nearer examination that it is reaiiy confined within very narrow limits * and that all this creative powar of the mind amounts to no more than the
faculty of compounding , trans | ¥ > aing , augmenting or diminishing the : ma * terials afforded us by the senses , land experieoce . " Grant this faculty » which Mr . Hume always supposes , and sviili it the simple ideas which Mr . Locke says are gained only from sensation ^ and reflection , and which Mr . J 4 u = rjae calls copies of the impressions uf o ** r external and internal senses , and we
shall be furnished with a tolerable axv sw ^ er to our author ' s question , " How come 1 to build a city in thought , > h ^ moment I read the words Vierwa * Moscow , Pekin , inscribed upon paper . }¦* The mind is , and we ^ appcehe nxi it is affirmed by Mr . M . to be , the builder ; and the materials are its own rec ^ lecteti
perceptions , which , if they resemble any things might seem to re ^ erribfe most the primitive perceptions " of which iheg are the . recdllection ; W ^ > vould ask , how ^ is it that very exjaci likenesses ar € thrown upon , paper in
the absence of tlie living orj [ gii ^^ X ? The artist painted from his ideas ) pr recollections aoly , ancl if tfe [ ey are . not a * copy of the impression on . thjs rs < sn ^ e
of sigkt , kowcomes it-lhat has jwctute is « o go © d a copy of it ? . - ,.... ^ z We proceed to the Doctor * ? exaniLr natron of Mr .-Hume ' s Steptk ? al Ooaius conct * i » nin ^ tri e 'O p erations of th ^ Maman Urnterstaoding . The oiaject of that celebrated Section i » to estabJisrfi that rT
the propbsi tiori ^ causes a ; n effects are discoverable not by reason but ; by experience . . " Jt is confessed JLne " saj ' . s ) til * t ih ^ ut most ^ ffort laf htjm ^ n r ^ iam i k ta > reduce ^ ke ujrincLules . pfpdu £ ja > w
of tiatunal pijiseiuo uswia ^ p . a greate / st ^ neupUiii ^ r , vanck to npafalvft t *« e ttfW ^ ny par ^ mtiar i * s&ects ijnlo \ a fe v ^ stg ^ j ^ r ^ l ca * is « f k > y mevn& *<* £ Keawamr ^^ feca *) analog , ~ Texf » f 4 « fee »^ uMl «» b 8 ttna ^« 9 ) nfi but as ia the causes of these gei&EMw
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/40/
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